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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 Original Fables and Riddles, IN RHYME, r ■ f With Other Poems. BY MELISSA T. AND EDWIN L. SANFORD. " Instead of a fleet of broad-bowed Ships " We '' Send a child's Armada of chips, " But '' Freighted with Love's golden fleece. " ■<•» W. DRYSDALE & CO., PUBLISHERS, 333 St. James Street. AccoY 9 3054 S Sdnfoi^cl Entered according to Act of Parliament, in the year of Our Lord, ,888, by L. L. Sanford, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa. ' / ^■^ I ^Pl^EFACE^ A goodseer, in ''The Brigiitside," a review, to he published by Dealfair & DoWELL, is to say of this little book : " These little Fable- Riddles are singu- larly fresh and original, in fact unique, and well adapted to young readers. May they help to make many young people happy." ^ 1 ( Riddles, <^'2./?V2^\» No. I. I will sing you a song of a warrior wee, The powers of darkness before him flee ; He is very slender and very small ; But a match for the strongest man of all. In his first great battle he sinks and dies, And his body in dust and ashes lies, But his glory remains by night and by day To drive the cold and the gloom away, Moral. And whosoever, though weak and small. Is striving to comfort and gladden all, Though seeming to perish and die away, Shall live in glory for aye and aye. For answer to Riddles, see page 36. KIIJDLES. No. 2. It is my part to hr.ve a heart Like Poet's heart to feel, And yet, by me, most cruelly The kindest i)eo])le deal. In the coldest i)lace my beardless face in winter you may see ; Andifltelll am treated well A har I shall be; For when the heat upon the street i>lakes people faint and reel, They keep me where the same I bear And ask how much I feel. ^ Moral by No. 4. RIDDLES. fk No. 3. When men are in sore trouble They treat us as their friends ; • But they cast us off ungratefully Whenever their trouble ends. We often have been feet to The grand and wealthy lame ; And to the poorest in the land We oft have been the same. Now ! here we wish to emphasize What we have said before, That rich and poor all shun us When they need our help no more. MoKAL by No. 4. Rinni.Ks. No. 4. I am a body tlie world can't spare, In its greatest work, 1 liavc a share, Whenever it scemelh for the best I turn old Earth from east to west. Sometimes my lot is very hard ; 'Ihey wipe my nose on flinty shard, Which some may think is very mean, For a neater nose was never seen. Moral. But let me kindly tell you , , It is folly lo repine, The while we are fulfilling Our Maker's wise design. RIDDLES. No. ** Listen my children inu you slir 11 hear, Of the mid-da}' ride of a Chcv:t!icr. He whom 1 sing is next akin To the famous Cai)tain J. ()ilj)in, He is a httle Jockey, And made to go astride A thing more like a halter Than like a horse to ride. He never has a saddle But his blankets are so neat, »» RIDDLES. We like to have them near us When we sit down to eat. , He seldom goes a-riding When the wind is very high, And of the rain, as of the wind, This little chap is shy. Moral. Who fears not to ride with never a rein A steed that thousands of men has slain,. May yet be afraid to face a storm, Or danger wearing some other form. RIDDLES. 0 No. 6. It is over the way of a duck. It is under the way of a goose. And right in the way of a raihoad train, And every day in use. Moral. We falsely deem our onward road By many things blockaded, Which really are of our way By heavenly wisdom graded. No. 7. This riddle is made for a little boy, And a little girl, to guess About a thing they can always find Somewhere upon their dress. 10 RIDDLES. No. 8. " With head throwi. back and h'ps apart," Unh"ke the forms of Grecian art, Upon its breast, the thing inclines Which is the subject of these lines, With foot and hand Fitstight I'll strain Before I need the thing again. No. 9. In the city home I'm a servant, And I serve in the house on the grange. And those who are very observant Have noticed a thing that is strange ; Both empty, and full, I may be at once. Who solves this riddle is no dunce. RIDDLES. 11 No. lo. It well agrees with comirjon sense That Frisky free can't climb a fence; But Frisky, fettered, easily Can mount above the tallest tree. Moral. So to our souls the bonds of love Are as the pinions of the dove. No. II. '* Its fine array was wrought in looms of air And woven by the shuttles of the sun In noiseless warp and woof of tissue fair," The silken web it gleamed and shone, With splendour far too bright to last, For while we gazed its beauty passed. 12 RIDDLES. ! No. 12. My ''heart is fire and my eye is flame," I long have borne a mystic name, The murky darkness helpeth me To make mankind more clearly see. Moral. And good and evil, in God's hand - Bring out the beautiful and grand. No. 13. He is truly as poor as a skeleton. Yet with flesh is daily clothed upon, Often with beauty he keepeth tryst, And daily he is clasped and kissed. His white moustache is a powerful charm To beautify and keep from harm. RIDDLES. 13 / No. 14. They are slender, and four, They are hard, they are bright, To tell you much more Were to tell you outright ; But because of their work Jack-frost cannot bite. No. 15. I am set the freshest news to hold That this to men may be unrolled, The longer I the same conceal The better all concerned will feel. Moral. If all, like me, were wisely dumb The kingdom would more quickly come. 14 RIDDLES. No. l6. I am somewhat like a shepherd's crook That you see pictured in a book. I'm a little thing that ladies use— 'Tis hard to keep the frisky muse From saying that which would disclose The name of things that cover hose ; And then you would not need to look To name me at a shepherd's crook. No. 17. As black as the stove, And hard as a stone, The hardest of riddles I help to make known. RIDDLES. 15 No. i8, His heart is the heart of a dentist to feel About as much as a j)iece of steel. He is wrinkled, and rough, in his "early day; And all his work is to tear away. But when he has mangled the cheeks and jaws Of those whose teetli he never draws, Reversed is the law of length of years And far less wrinkled he appears. No. 19. Whenever I work, three ways I go, Half the time to, and half the time fro, And a// the thne, one way I j)ress. It takes a bright boy this riddle to guess. B RIDDLES. ! No. 20. I am greater than some , Some are greater than I. I'obogganing sh'de-wise I am placed over pie. 'ihey are peeled, and are scattered, That coast over me. With xMeg in the kitchen My form you may see. No. 21. Significant of union, betokening divorce, Pursuing outline drawing in the most useful course, Containing signs and symbols of innumerable things, This tool is in the dwellings of peasants and of kin-s! ! i RIDDLES. 17 No. 22. •One question over and over again, By a thousand men was j)ut to mc, And different answers to ail these men Were all as true as true can be • = ' Moral. 'l^he wisest and the best of men Will readily allow, That all the facts of yesterday Show not what truth is now. No. 23. My father and mother are black as night, But I am white, like a line of light. I am sometimes nothing, and sometimes much I am swept away by a gentle touch. 18 RIDDLES. . • No. 24. I daily force my way below, Where lightning's bolt can never go. And heaven has given unto me Of solid walls the mystic key. Yet barriers reared by baby's hand Can force me to a sudden stand. Moral. Thus strength and weakness are allied And show the foolishness of pride. ' , ' No. 25. Arany wee hats for little heads, With hair of white, or coloured threads. IMany small hat-, and all in one, That is taken off, when the hat is done. iiii RIPDLES. 19 No. 26. Oh ! exquisite one, thy bosom swelled With the breath of the sweet young soul, While the hues of the heaven's hwcliest one Over the fair face stole ; But all too soon from our loving si<(ht Our beautiful vanished into light, But the Maker can cause again to be The face, and the form, we long to see. No, 27. *' Of stature tall, and slender frame," The bearer of a brilliant name, He makes the deadly striker's blow Fall harmless as a flake of snow. 20 RIDDLES, No. 28. If you look hiiii through, you may dcscrv That he tells a fact, while he tells a lie,' No other one whom 1 ever knew Was always false and always true. I tell the scope of this thought so queer In " the near is far and the far is near." Moral. Then for a single failing hang nobody to a tree; Perhaps a bough as justly migh^ be fructified widithee. No. 29. I am placed in a clime that is cold and drear; But just like summer, is all my year. I have more pains than toothache brings, And I am the home of the fairest things.' RIDDLES. 21 rcc cJ with thee. ir No. 30. I'm related to the sun, I'm related to the moon ; In th morning of my days I am taller than at noon ; And I could bear the crushing of a rushing railway train ; Nor lose the beauty of my form, nor suffer any pain. "The Primer of New England a man through me might read," And fiercest thrust of spearman could never make me bleed ; I lead the men of science, and follow every fool ; And I'm largely instrumental in keeping people cool. No. 31. My toothless mouth is very wide, And to keep the food in it is tied. I am often hugged by yeomen strong; But am seldom made the theme of song. in 11 22 RIDDLKS. l-i i ! ! Mil fill 1 1 . i ■r ! y\ i iiii I No. 2 2. h is black, and hard, as the stove is, With holes for kettle and pot, A place for fire, and an oven That is often very hot. And 'tis easy for a guesser To tell what it is not. Moral. This shows how just one little word, Designed to mystify, Can make of many honest facts A most ungracious lie. riddi.es. 23 No. 33. ^Vhat boots it, though I tell to thee, AVe are taken from a forest tree. And shapen by machinery ; Then in the track of a bright one passed At first, we find our home at last Sole holders of a gloomy hall That very often will rise and fall. No. 34. I often use both glasses and canes, When I go in leading strings, Afar may be heard my thundering strains, But farther my whisperings. iilli 24 i liliii! ♦ RIDDLES. No. 35. It is made of wood, or rope, or wire, As different uses may require ; It helps to gather the fruit from trees ; It helps the sailors on the seas ; It helps the brave to rise to fame, Through clouds of smcke and sheets of liame ^ Some lad or lass can speak its name. No. 36. « I will give you " a cle^v to the thread," When I mention the gash in my head ; Or declare, by a circuitous route I always go straight to my bed. ! IM» RIDDLES. 25 i me. No. 37. I bear my bearer, my bearer bears me, If you bear us apart, bare my bearer will be. No. 38. It is always in ice. It is always in snow, In the Danube, the Rhine, The Doon and the Po ; And out of the Nile In its overflow. Moral. Thus three in one, and one in three, As one, in one grand plan agree To bless our whole humanity. i mm I ill li *! ■i ! iHIHI ! ! RIDDLES. No. 39. No other thing in Christendom Is honoured as I am ; My mother is a fury, But I am like a Iamb. My dam is kept in prison Or guarded with great care, But I am left to wander, As free as light and air. And it with art and science, And common-sense agrees That whoso sees this riddle The answer also sees. \ii\m A RIDDLES. 27 No. 40. With my outside in, and my inside out, I bear the rich, or poor about, Along a city's ways I pass. Like cloudlet's shadow over grass. And high and dry across the sea Mankind are pleased to carry me. If o'er and o'er again you need These simple rhymes to hear or read, Before their meaning you discern, My misspelled helpers do not spurn. I .28 RIDDLES. No. 41. I have given my harp No dark-woven lay, It is plain to be seen What I mean when I say : , He is seldom at a funeral, But often at a feast. His outwards were the inwards Of a very nimble beast. His neck is very lengthy, And his head is very small, And he imitates too often The hideous caterwaul Moral. 'Tis well when what gives small annoy To one, gives many honest joy. RIDDLES. 29 No. 42. His kingly features, and royal name. Point to the stock of which he came, In every land upon the earth, Men own his i)urity and worth. However mixed with the vile and mean Untarnished he has ever been ; In heaven his brightness will be seen, Though one of : most unhallowed hoard, He is really and truly owned of the Lord ; Who says that love of him is a cause, Of dire disasters and broken laws. Now send him by orphan's or widow's hand, To be kept in the Bank of Emmanuel's land ! 30 RIDDLES. ■I ( .1 i i irHiii I iliiil i No. 43. My corn on another was cured where it grew, Yet it hurts me to wear either slipper or shoe. Thougli my place is the place of the menial feet, I am handle in hand with the tidy and neat. Had I said it was killed, instead of " was cured," Each sequence the same I would have insured. Now ! showing this synonym, ought to give me A place in the heart of each learned M.D. ,. Moral. How many claim our love and trust, Though nothing more than able To preach themselves alone to us In a misleiiding fabje. KIDDr-KS. 31 No. 44. I am " as broad as a j)orker," I am '• as thin as a shad," I am made to ward off l)lcssings 7'hat come on the good and the bad ; With real bones, my body, My makers used to stay ; But they brace me up with rods of steel. In this my latter day. Moral. Whenever God's general blessing Gives particular grief or pain. He giveth a shield to ccmfort, In giving the power to gain. RIDDLES. ^li! Hi 11 ,, jii I i Hiiiii No. 45. We wear the image of greatness or worth, We journey with tleetness all over the earth ; Before we start in our useful career Our beauty with blackness they faithfully smear. And this thing is done with design to prevent Any dishonest person from stealing a cent. And GO we are like the loving and true, Who suffer for wrong that others f/i/g/.'f do. KIPI'LKS. ;{•{ 11, irth ; y smear. jvent int. do. No. 46. Think not of Hohenlinden, Muse not on ]]annockburn. Let not your mind a moment Towards a seafight turn. We are two hundred guardsmen, Arranged in bright array ; We are two hundred spearmen All ready lor the fray. No fierce campaign of bloodshed Will be by us essayed, Our duty will be chiefly done On i)eaceful dress parade ; And when our day is over, , J .LMLl m RIDDLKS. f !l!!l!!l l>! '1 V\ I And all our duty done, And we to dust have fallen, Like pine spikes one by one; No monument or cenotaph Will be reared uj; for us, And over us no bard will make A sentimental fuss. Moral. Now here we show the moral, Of our mystic little lay ; The many poor unlettered ones, For toil get little pay; And none will give them honour due, When th'iv have passed away. KIDDLES. m . No. 4;. In form I nuicli rcsenil)le An iron kettle's bail, I'm a token unimportant To that i)o\verfiil fish the whale. In reference to my substance, What follows fMves the irist. Whenever I am f^iirly hit, 'Tis always when I'm misl. Moral. A thing may have great beauty, And significance beside, And yet may go for nothing With the grandest fish that glide. llill lil'li i w II ! •''i Qnswers t0 [Riddles. 1. Match . . 2. Thermoniete 3. Crutches . 4. Plough 5. Clothes-pin 6. Railroad Bridge 7. Button 8. Bootjack . 9. Glass lamp 10. Paper kite 11. Soap-bubble 12. Magic Lantern 13. Tooth-brush . 14. Knitting needles 15. Corner stone 16. Button-hook . 17. Slate . . . 18. File . . . 19. Cross cut saw 20. Nutmeg grater 21. Shears . . , 22. Town clock . 23. Mark of slate pencil 24. Light >>o<-*^s=>o . '-, '"- r ^ Lines written in Autumn, i8S6 To a Faithful Friend . Albert Meliss The Sweetest Hope I'm four years old . Dutiful .... Song . . . Fairy Boat Songs vSimile . . . . . Welcome .... Lucernal . . . . I'ACK, 37 39 41 43 44 46 47 4t 49 5i 55